by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 18, 2026 | Scam of the day
Amazon Prime Day is a global promotion of Amazon featuring sales on a variety of items available solely to Amazon Prime members. Although it is called Amazon Prime Day, it actually goes on for multiple days twice a year. This year Amazon has indicated that it is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 10, 2026 | Scam of the day
Skimmers at gas pumps continue to be a major problem. Skimmers are small electronic devices that are easily installed by an identity thief on gas pumps, ATMs and other card reading devices. The skimmer steals all of the information from old style magnetic strip...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2026 | Scam of the day
Creative scammers have come up with a new way to scam you when you shop online. For years, I have warned you about phony retail websites that either appear to be that of legitimate retailers such as Wallmart or are just websites that come up high in a search engine...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 12, 2026 | Scam of the day
In August of 2024, the rental car company Avis suffered a data breach in which personal and financial information of 299,000 of its customers was compromised. The compromised information included names, mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 4, 2026 | Scam of the day
A Nike data breach that occurred around January 21, 2026 has resulted in a lawsuit being filed by Maria Gomez of California who is seeking class action status to represent all of the victims of the data breach. The lawsuit claims that while Nike became aware of the...
